The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. October 26, 2010 BP Accuses Media and Competitors of Fear-Mongering -------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile, BP’s new CEO Bob Dudley has accused the news media and some of BP’s competitors of exaggerating the severity of the BP oil spill, the largest in US history. Dudley said Monday, “[There was] a great rush to judgment by a fair number of observers before the full facts could possibly be known." .